Anime

[Solarius Scorch 10]

You talkin 'bout me?

Yeah, you too.

I absolutely loved the pic.

[Kat Tsun 10]

I enjoyed Ghost in the Shell quite a lot. Also, Berserk and Genocyber were good too.

[a333 10]

They've making a new one btw:

[thothkins 10]

Looking forward to Ghost in the Shell very much.

[TrashMan 90]

(Under? Where? ) comedy

(Cocaine) comedy

(Party, Party)

(Dressing up)

(Schrodingers Box)

(Our particular world) - mixed

(Steel Fenders - fate of the King) - atm, story

(Stop the clocks) - romance,atmosphere, story

(Glad you came) - happy, romance

(Love struck) - drama, story

(Rock'NRollaZ) - song

(attack on titan - give me a reason)

[thothkins 10]

actually, since this is the anime thread after all.

I liked Ghost in the Shell and it's follow up moveis and TV series. What other anime out there is of a similar nature? Hard Sci-fi, detective more than muscle bound pitched battles, near fururistic?

[GizmoGomez 10]

Gundam (Wing is awesome, Seed is freaking awesome, I should finish that) is cool, just throwing that out there.

I enjoyed Yuyu Hakisho (if that's how you spell it; I've not seen it in years) as well.

[Solarius Scorch 10]

actually, since this is the anime thread after all.

I liked Ghost in the Shell and it's follow up moveis and TV series. What other anime out there is of a similar nature? Hard Sci-fi, detective more than muscle bound pitched battles, near fururistic?

Ergo Proxy is somewhat similar, although I haven't really watched it.

Appleseed is a bit more action-oriented (though not exceedingly so), but the original manga was also drawn by Masamune Shirow (author of Ghost in the Shell and therefore cannot be ignored. The movie's cell-shade-styled visuals got old quickly, but it's not that important.

Dennou Coil has an absolutely stunning cyberpunk plot and fairly good execution, but it's very different as it centres on a group of kids.

Let me know when you're done with these, I'll think of something more then.

[thothkins 10]

thanks for the tips. I've seen Appleseed movies and read the manga, but not the others.

[TrashMan 90]

actually, since this is the anime thread after all.

I liked Ghost in the Shell and it's follow up moveis and TV series. What other anime out there is of a similar nature? Hard Sci-fi, detective more than muscle bound pitched battles, near fururistic?

The hardest sci-fi anime I know is Planetes. A great naime b.t.w.

For a more brain-power oriented sci-fi anime, you also have Starship Operators and the great classic Legend of Galactic Heroes. Be warned - LOGH is over 100 episodes long, has TONS and TONS of characters and lots of talk about politics.

[a333 10]

And for something more concetrated and close to the GiTS, you can try Serial Experiments Lain.

Just.. be careful.

[thothkins 10]

thanks very much for all the suggestions folks. Really glad I posted that Lots to look at.

[a333 10]

TrashMan — grats for the Planetes. Wonderful thing.

I have kind of a question too: Best space battles in anime? Preferably hand-drawn. I'm allergic to the bad CG's (

[TrashMan 90]

massive battles or one-on-one?

[a333 10]

Anything.

I've lurked a bit, and found this:

This period in anime (80-90s) is enigmatic for me. I'd like to fix that. Drawing and animation quality is unbeliveable.

[thothkins 10]

Oooh, that looked very good. Reminded me of a scene from the HG Wells Things to Come movie from 1936

I also spotted a link to Patlabor, another one that I liked quite a bit.

[TrashMan 90]

Anything.

I've lurked a bit, and found this:

This period in anime (80-90s) is enigmatic for me. I'd like to fix that. Drawing and animation quality is unbeliveable.

[Solarius Scorch 10]

Ahahaha.

[thothkins 10]

well, form 1:30, that's the promo of what some posters in the air combat threads have been after

[TrashMan 90]

Ahahaha.

Strike Witches?

I feel unclean...

[Ishantil 10]

Clearly the way that I can defeat the UFOs is with some Strike Witches!

[thothkins 10]

It's going to look odd having underwear in Stores though.

[Solarius Scorch 10]

It's going to look odd having underwear in Stores though.

Thing is, I know many people who would play a Strike Witches mod.

(Not sure if I would. )

[Ishantil 10]

They call underwear "zubon" in the show, which is hilarious, because that's the word they use for pants in Japanese. In that world, underwear is the new pants!

[thothkins 10]

Thing is, I know many people who would play a Strike Witches mod.

(Not sure if I would. )

Following Andron and Medium Drone research Xenonauts have created an aerial combat drone to take on enemy craft.

At this stage in the alien invasion, the aliens are now plunging huge numbers of craft into the atmosphere in a final attempt to subdue the Earth.

Late stage air combat becomes a pitched aerial battle between 12 of your nimble combat drones against 30 alien ships! Mayhem!

Yeah, I'd play that Just not sure about the way they look though...